Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

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Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by mahna » 15 Mar 2014, 6:38 am

A workmate asked me this and I had no idea... Has anyone eaten fox?

Forget your canned spaghetti when camping or anything and get desperate? :lol:

Probably doesn't taste great, but it's all just meat I guess?
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Post by Member-Deleted » 15 Mar 2014, 6:52 am

There was a bloke from Mexico that use to eat it on the old fourm & I know a bloke out at one of my culling spots that isn't doing to well financially & eats that as well as a host of other road kill I won't mention. I normally grab him a few goats & deer every time I'm out there. Can't stomach him eating that other crap.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by reddog » 15 Mar 2014, 9:11 am

I was shooting with a bloke the other day and we got a couple of wild cats after we got home he said he was thinking about keeping them .
I thought for the skins , but he rather sheepishly said nah to eat ! Now I will tell you right now it doesnt turn me on , but he reckons they are
quite nice with sweet meat . I will have to take his word for it because I' not gonna find out , each to their own I suppose , probably better for
you than Maccas
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Monty » 15 Mar 2014, 3:45 pm

Not I.

Will have to leave that to more adventurous eaters than me :lol:
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Westy » 15 Mar 2014, 7:39 pm

reddog wrote:I was shooting with a bloke the other day and we got a couple of wild cats after we got home he said he was thinking about keeping them .
I thought for the skins , but he rather sheepishly said nah to eat ! Now I will tell you right now it doesnt turn me on , but he reckons they are
quite nice with sweet meat . I will have to take his word for it because I' not gonna find out , each to their own I suppose , probably better for
you than Maccas



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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by RDobber » 15 Mar 2014, 7:51 pm

Good old Weird Al :lol:
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Stevo » 15 Mar 2014, 9:20 pm

I dont reckon i'd be keen on it just for the fun of it but i do know of an old bloke who said he ate crow when times were really tough back in the olden days.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by WWCowboy » 15 Mar 2014, 10:11 pm

Wow. I guess if your hungry enough, i'm sure our forefathers in the war had to chow down some pretty hideous stuff
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Brute » 16 Mar 2014, 6:46 am

It's all just meat I guess?

More our bias against something unfamiliar than anything wrong with it?

Not saying it's going to be fillet steak but...
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Baronvonrort » 16 Mar 2014, 11:43 pm

reddog wrote:I was shooting with a bloke the other day and we got a couple of wild cats after we got home he said he was thinking about keeping them .
I thought for the skins , but he rather sheepishly said nah to eat ! Now I will tell you right now it doesnt turn me on , but he reckons they are
quite nice with sweet meat . I will have to take his word for it because I' not gonna find out


I know some Aborigines who live the traditional life they all say feral cat is tasty and good tucker, i guess compared to eating witchetty grubs it probably is alright.

They all reckon the tail is the best part of the kangaroo for eating.

I don't know anyone who has eaten fox.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Joom » 17 Mar 2014, 7:29 am

Brute wrote:It's all just meat I guess?

More our bias against something unfamiliar than anything wrong with it?


I reckon that's right.

If you'd grown up eating fox instead of chicken you wouldn't bat an eye-lid at the idea.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by mahna » 23 Mar 2014, 5:22 pm

Hmm,

I think I'm going to have to man up and try one next time the chance presents itself :lol:
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by 1290 » 23 Mar 2014, 5:41 pm

Foxes are members of the Canid family.... they are dogs. Most humans do not/would not eat dog... or fox and if you've ever skinned one then you will never EAT one, and I would certainly never eat an animal that scavenges and eats aaaaannnnnny thing itself.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Pilch » 23 Mar 2014, 5:52 pm

1290 wrote:I would certainly never eat an animal that scavenges and eats aaaaannnnnny thing itself.


That's most stuff in the wild surely?
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by 1290 » 23 Mar 2014, 7:13 pm

Pilch wrote:That's most stuff in the wild surely?


Most of the tasty stuff is not.....
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Aster » 24 Mar 2014, 8:03 am

Pilch wrote:That's most stuff in the wild surely?


Predators sure. Cats, foxes, dogs etc.

The animals commonly in the human food chain are all grazers though.

Cow, sheep, goat, ducks etc. aren't scavenging corpses obviously...

Having said that chickens will eat just about anything, included their own eggs etc. And everyone loves chicken..
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by brouta » 24 Mar 2014, 8:31 am

Chickens eat their own eggs? :shock:
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Aster » 24 Mar 2014, 8:33 am

If they drop one out of the coop they will just leave it, they don't make any effort to move it or save it.

Later they walk past and there it is... Lunch.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by headspace » 29 Mar 2014, 10:17 pm

I can tell you that I would sooner dig up a funnel web, skin it and eat it than gnaw on a fox. Having skinned heaps of them I can tell you that about the only animal that may have a go at a dead fox may be a goanna, although a pig isn't fussy. I've never seen a crow on a road kill fox either and they aren't fussy.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by on_one_wheel » 02 Apr 2014, 11:55 pm

Eat a fox! .... Bllllluuuuuurrrrrrkkkkkk, I just spewed up everywhere just thinking about it!

I would rather drink my own fermented urine from a decomposing snake skin water bag than eat a fox!
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by headspace » 03 Apr 2014, 9:27 am

on_one_wheel wrote:Eat a fox! .... Bllllluuuuuurrrrrrkkkkkk, I just spewed up everywhere just thinking about it!

I would rather drink my own fermented urine from a decomposing snake skin water bag than eat a fox!


That's a viable alternative!
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by mahna » 03 Apr 2014, 1:28 pm

on_one_wheel wrote:Eat a fox! .... Bllllluuuuuurrrrrrkkkkkk, I just spewed up everywhere just thinking about it!


So I'll put you down in the 'no' column then... :lol:
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by Supporter » 03 Apr 2014, 1:29 pm

mahna wrote:Probably doesn't taste great, but it's all just meat I guess?


I suppose it would keep you alive.

Beyond that I'm saying no.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by RealNick » 03 Apr 2014, 1:30 pm

Supporter wrote:I suppose it would keep you alive.


I think I might just lay down in the field and wait to go instead :lol:
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by 1290 » 03 Apr 2014, 8:16 pm

I've just trapped a little vixen, so if you wants to try I could send it over..... yum yum
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by mahna » 04 Apr 2014, 10:30 am

I'm sure I'll get by without it :lol:
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by 1290 » 04 Apr 2014, 6:21 pm

mahna wrote:I'm sure I'll get by without it :lol:

Sure?

Foxy loxy was not too happy about the situation... :D
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by AaronMulligan » 04 Apr 2014, 10:26 pm

I have never tried it myself and I guess I wouldn't mind. The smell of it when preparing is just really not good.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by 1290 » 05 Apr 2014, 7:29 am

When approaching this trapped fox.... from about 5m I started smelling the stench. Skinning increases the stench. You can NOT eat it.
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Re: Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

Post by whert » 05 Apr 2014, 7:47 am

More than "not good" Aaron.

"Too bad" is more like it I reckon :lol:
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